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Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 18:16:30 -0700
From:   Henry Burns <henryburns@...gle.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vitaly Vul <vitaly.vul@...y.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Xidong Wang <wangxidong_97@....com>,
        Jonathan Adams <jwadams@...gle.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/z3fold.c: Lock z3fold page before __SetPageMovable()

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:00 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:51 PM Henry Burns <henryburns@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > __SetPageMovable() expects it's page to be locked, but z3fold.c doesn't
> > lock the page. Following zsmalloc.c's example we call trylock_page() and
> > unlock_page(). Also makes z3fold_page_migrate() assert that newpage is
> > passed in locked, as documentation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Henry Burns <henryburns@...gle.com>
> > Suggested-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  Changelog since v1:
> >  - Added an if statement around WARN_ON(trylock_page(page)) to avoid
> >    unlocking a page locked by a someone else.
> >
> >  mm/z3fold.c | 6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
> > index e174d1549734..6341435b9610 100644
> > --- a/mm/z3fold.c
> > +++ b/mm/z3fold.c
> > @@ -918,7 +918,10 @@ static int z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
> >                 set_bit(PAGE_HEADLESS, &page->private);
> >                 goto headless;
> >         }
> > -       __SetPageMovable(page, pool->inode->i_mapping);
> > +       if (!WARN_ON(!trylock_page(page))) {
> > +               __SetPageMovable(page, pool->inode->i_mapping);
> > +               unlock_page(page);
> > +       }
>
> Can you please comment why lock_page() is not used here?
Since z3fold_alloc can be called in atomic or non atomic context,
calling lock_page() could trigger a number of
warnings about might_sleep() being called in atomic context. WARN_ON
should avoid the problem described
above as well, and in any weird condition where someone else has the
page lock, we can avoid calling
__SetPageMovable().
>
> >         z3fold_page_lock(zhdr);
> >
> >  found:
> > @@ -1325,6 +1328,7 @@ static int z3fold_page_migrate(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpa
> >
> >         VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageMovable(page), page);
> >         VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageIsolated(page), page);
> > +       VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(newpage), newpage);
> >
> >         zhdr = page_address(page);
> >         pool = zhdr_to_pool(zhdr);
> > --
> > 2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
> >